Arye Ephrath was born in April 1942 in the basement of his home in Bardejov, where his mother was hiding to avoid deportation. He spent the first three years of his life in hiding, and Arye and his parents reunited after the war and settled in Israel in 1948. He later became a professor of aeronautical engineering in the United States. Here he reflects on the survivor’s role as spokesperson for those who didn’t survive.